Word: renews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...School of Education had to begrudgingly renew its search for a dean...
...Dunster House Master Karel Liem explained his decision not to renew Ignatiev's contract by saying that the American Civilizations graduate student had not attended a single meeting of house tutors...
...senior officers, is itching to pick a fight with the outside world to prove he's in control despite the debilitating international embargo and the presence of the U.N. arms inspectors. He has defied demands for information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, refused to renew an agreement allowing relief workers to operate in Iraq, spurned a U.N. deal that would allow him to sell $1.6 billion in oil to finance food and humanitarian aid, and rejected a new U.N.-demarcated border with Kuwait. He has even stepped up operations against Shi'ite Muslim rebels in the south...
...Asian Nations meets this week in Manila, VIETNAM will be pleading for support in resisting growing Chinese aggression. Just eight months ago, China and Vietnam normalized relations. Their border was opened. Trade blossomed. Assistance flowed from Beijing. But last month Chinese warships sailed into the South China Sea to renew China's claim to the Spratly Islands, which Vietnam counts as its own. Ignoring Vietnam's complaints, China has sold oil and gas exploration rights in the area to a Denver firm. Meanwhile, Chinese troops have moved border markers deeper into Vietnam, and many Chinese visitors seem determined to stay...
...feel determined, as determined as I've been since I've begun this. There is a feeling, I think perhaps more intense among people my age and a little older, that this is a moment we have to try to turn the country around, revive it economically, reunite it, renew...